It is time for your meal break where would you normally choose to eat?At your office desk or sitting on the toilet?
I suspect that almost all of you would decide to choose your office desk. You may change your mind when you learn that your average toilet seat in offices today has less bacteria on it than your office desk. Arizona University researchers collected swabs from around one hundred offices right across the US and on analysis found there was over 400 times as much bacteria on the office desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your Aberdeen office cleaner clean the office desk properly?
Right now you probably have a keyboard sitting in front of you. On average that keyboard will likely to have over 3,000 microbes in every square inch. Your mouse is a little cleaner with only around 1700 Don’t panic but pick up the telephone to find a office cleaning company and you will be speaking into an office accessory with 25,000 microbes per square inch.
Alba Office Cleaning company visits a number of new companies in Aberdeen area each day. Many of them already have office cleaning contracts with other companies so are no longer shocked to discover the lack of cleaning standards an half done jobs.
On one of those visits an office manager was telling me how she regularly has to complain to the office cleaners about the odd paper clip that has been left for days on the floor. Why she did not pick it up herself the first day I still don’t know.
I asked her which was the most important job for the cleaner in the office around the desks. To be told to make sure that the bins were emptied and the floor was cleaned every day but office staff would clear their own desk so papers were not disturbed. My response was to ask her to tip her keyboard upside down over some clean paper and give it a thump with her hand. She was amazed at the amount of crumbs and dirt which came out of it. The new cleaning contract we put into that office set priorities on staff welfare and ensuring areas not used much were downgrading as to the number of cleans needed each week.
It is important that all staff and your visitors to your office get to see clean and tidy surroundings but we need to think not just about visual appearances (which are important) but about the welfare of staff working in offices.












